IAB 05

Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung

worked as a team on several audiovisual and research projects. Both are based in London. Felstead is an academic and strategist whose work focuses on the intersection of fashion, culture, and emerging technologies. He is Course Leader at the London College of Fashion and co-founder of Emergence of Tomorrow, a digital think tank. He has developed work for the BBC, Google, Tate, and the V&A. Jenn Leung is a technologist, artist and researcher. Her work explores game engine simulations, real-time streaming technologies, and agent-based modelling. She currently lectures at the London College of Fashion and has shown work at Epic Games Innovation Lab, Ars Electronica, DIS, and TANK Magazine.

Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung

Always on My Mind, 2024, film

Always on My Mind speculates on the future of neurotechnology, beginning with Elon Musk’s Neuralink implant in a quadriplegic patient in 2024. Musk suggests that, eventually, humans may communicate through brain-to-brain interfaces, bypassing language. Felstead and Leung stage this speculative future through the figure of Nicki Minaj, imagined as a master linguist and cultural commentator. The work blends satire and critique, exploring the ethical, social, and bodily implications of “consensual telepathy.” By linking neuro-extractivism with the devaluation of words themselves, the piece questions what might be lost when language is replaced by thought exchange. Playful yet unsettling, Always on My Mind exposes the tensions between exploitation and identity in neurotechnological futures.

Special screening programme.

김아영 Ayoung KIM,

Alice Bucknell ,

Živa Božičnik Rebec,

Gerard Ortín Castellví,

Maks Bricelj and Ema Maznik Antić,

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler,

Lawrence Lek,

Nestor Siré,

Suzanne Treister,

Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich,

刘窗 Chuang LIU,

Marina Xenofontos,

Laibach Kunst,

Dragan Živadinov and Dunja Zupančič,

Tanit Plana,

Heba Y. Amin,

업체 eobchae,

Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko,

Aleksandra Domanović,

Abu Bakarr Mansaray,

Selena Savić and Gordan Savičić,

Sandro Ðukić,

!Mediengruppe Bitnik,

Sophie Cundale,

Rich Pell,

오세린 Serin OH,

박민하 Minha PARK,

Cemile Sahin,